Posted on 05/02/2007 12:11:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Stay-at-home mother's work worth $138,095 a year Wed May 2, 2007 2:51PM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday.
This reflected a 3 percent raise from last year's $134,121, according to Salary.com Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts.
The 10 jobs listed as comprising a mother's work were housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist, it said.
The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, it said, working 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime.
A mother who holds full-time job outside the home would earn an additional $85,939 for the work she does at home, Salary.com.
Last year she would have earned $85,876 for her at-home work, it said.
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So if your wife works outside of the home, she’s depriving the family of $138,095 worth of service every year?
Good thing my wife’s too busy to read FR! ;-)
So that’s why they want ALL the money! LOL
My ex-wives? Cook? Clean? HA HA HA HA HA!!!
This stuff drives me insane.
“Honey, The IRS is here!”
If I wasn’t married with kids I wouldn’t NEED the live-in psychologist.
My ex wife didn’t do anything either. She in fact cost a lot of money and didn’t add anything to the household. Not all stay ay home Mom’s are created equal.
I am SOOOOOO going on strike.
;-)
How selfish are career wives depriving their family of over 138,000 a year in services.
Add sex to the equation and I'm worth $532,873.42 a year.
YMMV ;^)
This has been discredited several times over the years in various ways.
It might be interesting, if not already done, to do the same thing with men’s duties as chauffer, handyman, trash hauler, gardener, etc.
So a man who only earns 80 90 grand a year is pretty much a dead beat?
How much would it cost to hire someone who was a breadwinner, handyman, plumber, furniture mover, auto mechanic, landscaper, gardener, electrician, role model, financial planner, bodyguard ... ?
Me too. It’s just so f-ing Oporah stupid.
I’m in the wrong line of work........
So what’s the additional income for the jobs a man does at home?
Time to hire an illegal.
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